S A L S A "Salsa is more than just a good time, wiggling your butt and working up a sweat. It is all that but it is also much more. To many displaced young Latinos all over the world, salsa is a validation - it is home, a flag, and grandma. Kids who are constantly told that they are different because they are Latinos, despite being first-, second-, or even third-generation US or whatever born, will cling to this music for answers. It is a cultural place where they can belong, a socio-political movement, a platform to tell our stories and communicate across the broad expanses that we inhabit. Salsa continues the ancient traditions of aural learning, of cleansing your sorrows in dance as your body is carried away by the beat. It is the reconciliation of the three roots that make up our Latino culture: the African, European, and native Caribbean roots. Salsa is a social, musical, cultural, hybrid force that has embraced jazz, folklore, pop and everything else that is relevant or could stand in its evolutionary path. It is the basis for rap/hiphop, house and dance (disco). It is the groundwork that made Gloria Estefan and Antonio Banderas palatable to the world...." --Willie Colon 1
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 06:17:04 +0000
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